Candy Bowl Counter
DNTV 2/25/2015 Post a commentJoe Wascow, principal at Optimal Design Co., talks about his company's technology during the Pacific Design & Manufacturing Show in Anaheim, Calif. This software knows when an attending takes a piece of candy from the bowl, and even keeps track of calories.

Team Sigma's Steady-Cam Quadcopter
DNTV 11/21/2014 2 commentsThis video was the culmination of a 10-week project assigned to small groups of mechanical engineering students at Cal Poly Pomona to complete their Advanced Machine Design class.

A Lesson In Lithium-Ion Volatility
DNTV 10/24/2014 14 commentsDuring a teardown of the iPad Air and Microsoft Surface Pro 3 at the Medical Design & Manufacturing Show in Schaumburg, Ill, an engineer showed this "inflammatory" video about the dangers of maliciously mishandling lithium-ion batteries. (The video originally appeared on YouTube.)

Gadget Freak Case #266: The Window Watcher
Gadget Freak 10/24/2014 Post a commentThe Window Watcher stops the burglar before he does damage or enters the house. House alarm service companies set off alarms and call the service only after the burglar has damaged and entered the house.

A few weeks ago, Ford Motor Co. quietly announced that it was rolling out a new wrinkle to the powerful safety feature called stability control, adding even more lifesaving potential to a technology that has already been very successful.

It won't be too much longer and hardware design, as we used to know it, will be remembered alongside the slide rule and the Karnaugh map. You will need to move beyond those familiar bits and bytes into the new world of software centric design.

People who want to take advantage of solar energy in their homes no longer need to install a bolt-on solar-panel system atop their houses -- they can integrate solar-energy-harvesting shingles directing into an existing or new roof instead.

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